Article | REF: E7007 V1

Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

Authors: Jean-Claude SIMON, Michel JOINDOT

Publication date: February 10, 2019

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2. SOA applications in telecommunications

In this second section, we describe some SOA applications in the field of optical telecommunications. While their gain non-linearities have made them largely preferable to EDFAs for the amplification function in high-speed, long-distance transmissions, their use as amplifiers in access networks is still the subject of research. But it is precisely because of their gain non-linearities that SOAs have been extensively studied, in order to realize potentially useful optical functions such as electro-optical modulation, wavelength conversion, all-optical regeneration, time demultiplexing, clock recovery and phase conjugation. Let's take a look at some of these applications.

2.1 Direct optical amplification

Despite their poorer performance as linear amplifiers compared...

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